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A Briefing on Escalating Media Repression in Zimbabwe

Location: Washington, D.C.
Event Date: March 3, 2006
Speaker: Isabella Matambandadzo

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity sponsored a briefing on recent developments affecting independent journalists in Zimbabwe. The briefing featured Isabella Matambandadzo, program manager for the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa and a trustee of the Voice of the People, which is one of Zimbabwe's few remaining independent radio stations. She discussed sharply escalating government repression and intimidation against private media outlets.

A video of the conference is available for viewing on the Wilson Center website at www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm.

While in Washington, Matambandadzo also discussed the situation on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Audio is available at www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5248988.

Related Information

Zimbabwe Cracks Down on Independent Radio Station
Press Release
February 1, 2006
In an attempt to silence one of Zimbabwe's last independent news outlets, six board members of a Harare-based radio station—including an OSI coordinator—were charged with broadcasting without a license and face up to two years in jail.

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